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Which is your favourite film score?

  • Aladdin

    Votes: 1 25%

  • Howards End

    Votes: 1 25%

  • A River Runs Through It

    Votes: 0 0%

  • Basic Instinct

    Votes: 2 50%
  • Total voters
    4
  • Poll closed .

Talkclassical best film score award - 1993

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2.4K views 6 replies 3 participants last post by  HansZimmer  
H
#1 · (Edited)
For the first part of the Talkclassical best film score award, today I'll launch this little competition (poll) between the film scores which were nominated at the Academy Awards (Oscars) in 1993 for the award "best original score".
You simply have to vote your prefered score.

For the 1993 best original score award, five films were nominated:
  • Aladdin: score composed by Alan Menken. This is the final winner.
  • Howards End: score composed by Richard Robbins.
  • A River Runs Through It: score composed by Mark Isham
  • Basic Instinct: score composed by Jerry Goldsmith
  • Chaplin: score composed by John Barry

SINCE I WAS NOT ABLE TO FIND THE FULL SUITE OF THE SCORE OF "CHAPLIN", IT WON'T PARTECIPATE TO THE COMPETITION. SO, THIS TIME WE WILL EVALUATE ONLY FOUR FILM SCORES.

Here below you can find four videos containing the best parts of the suite for each film.
The typical structure of the videos is the following:
  • Exposition of the main theme at the beginning of the video
  • Exposition of secondary themes in the middle of the video (I try to avoid repetitions: you will ear only one arrangement for each secondary theme)
  • Reprise of the main theme at the end of the video

For the final reprise of the main theme I usually select the best arrangement of it, so the end of each video is usually the "great final" (the best part of the score).

If you want to listen to the full suites, you can go to the "more details" links.


ALADDIN (award winner)

More details: Aladdin - Score - Exposition for TC best film score award 1993



HOWARDS END

More details: Howards End - Score - Exposition for TC best film score award 1993



A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT

More details: A Rivers Runs Throught It - Score - TC best film score award 1993 material exposition



BASIC INSTINCT

More details: Basic Instinct - Score - TC best film score award 1993 material exposition

 
#3 ·
Chaplin

Aladdin was all about the songs . . . the incidental music was nice, but not all that remarkable. Good. The songs are excellent though.

I cannot believe that Howard's Bleeding End was so highly regarded in the cinematic world. That's likely why it ended up in the running.

Again, it's remarkable that the Grammy Awards' list of Film Score nominees shared only two soundtracks with the list from the Motion Picture Academy: ALADDIN (which won the Grammy), and A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT.

The Grammys felt that the following three films were more worthy than Howard's End, Basic Instinct, and Chaplin:

JURASSIC PARK (John Williams)
THE FIRM (Dave Grusin)
THE AGE OF INNOCENCE (Elmer Bernstein)
 
H
#6 · (Edited)
If the film is of 1993, it has nothing to do with this competition, because here we are speaking about movies of 1992. Infact, the 1993 Oscars are for films of 1992.

However, keep aside your favourite scores for my next competition. I will create a competition for film scores based on the "kill the king" model that I'm already using for the competition about J.S. Bach.

I will use the winner of this competition as the initial king for the next competition: the users will have the chance to try to kill the king with their favourite film scores.
 
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